Chisina Kapungu is a senior gender and youth specialist for YouthPower Learning at the International Center for Research on Women. In this role, Chisina Kapungu provides technical oversight to research and evaluation projects focused on gender, youth development and adolescent health. She has nearly 15 years of experience as a clinical psychologist, community-based researcher and program developer with special expertise in adolescent health, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She manages research and evaluations designed to build the evidence base about positive youth development and informs the global community on how to strengthen youth's skills, assets, competencies and enabling environment. Prior to joining YouthPower Learning and ICRW in 2015, Chisina was an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Illinois at Chicago leading maternal acnd child projects in Ghana and Zimbabwe. She also worked as a health policy fellow in the office of Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, where she provided scientific and technical expertise identifying emerging health policy issues in women's health, infectious disease, global and domestic public health crisis response, and international development.

Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, a physician, is Zambia's minister of health since August 2016. He is also a member of the National Assembly of Zambia, representing Mansa Central.

Chloé Farand is a freelance climate reporter.

Chris Atim, Ph.D., is a health economist with more than 25 years of experience working on health-systems financing worldwide. He is an executive with Results for Development and the founding executive director of the African Health Economics and Policy Association.

Chris Beyrer, M.D., MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu professor in public health and human rights and professor at Johns Hopkins University. From 2014-16, he served as president at the International AIDS Society. Beyrer has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and has spent much of his career focusing on health and human rights.

Chris Chibwana is a partner and African lead at IDinsight, based in Lusaka, Zambia. He oversees IDinsight’s Africa client engagements, which encompass projects across social protection, education, agriculture, health and water, and sanitation sectors.

Chris Collins is president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria where he leads the organization's efforts in Washington, D.C., to secure investment in the Global Fund and related global health programs. With more than 20 years of experience working in HIV advocacy and policy, he previously headed mobilization efforts at UNAIDS in Geneva, and led amfAR’s policy work in Washington. Chris holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.

Chris Elias, MD, MPH, is president of the Global Development Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He leads the foundation’s efforts to accelerate the delivery of proven health care products and solutions to those who need them most — especially women and children. Chris recently served as the president and CEO of PATH, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of people around the world by developing innovative health technologies, strengthening health care systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors.

Chris is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors with over 18 years governance experience, currently serving as chair of RESULTS International Australia and previously as a director and chair of not-for-profit, government, financial services, personal insurance, and health insurance boards.